# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2016, 36(3): 1603-1628. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.1603

## Infinitely many solutions for an elliptic problem with double critical Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya terms

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China, China

Received  November 2014 Revised  April 2015 Published  August 2015

In this paper, by an approximating argument, we obtain infinitely many solutions for the following problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u = \mu \frac{|u|^{2^{*}(t)-2}u}{|y|^{t}} + \frac{|u|^{2^{*}(s)-2}u}{|y|^{s}} + a(x) u, & \hbox{$\text{in} \Omega$}, \\ u=0,\,\, &\hbox{$\text{on}~\partial \Omega$}, \\ \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\mu\geq0,2^{*}(t)=\frac{2(N-t)}{N-2},2^{*}(s) = \frac{2(N-s)}{N-2},0\leq t < s < 2,x = (y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^{k} \times \mathbb{R}^{N-k},2 \leq k < N,(0,z^*)\subset \bar{\Omega}$ and $\Omega$ is an open bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}.$ We prove that if $N > 6+t$ when $\mu>0$ and $N > 6+s$ when $\mu=0,$ $a((0,z^*)) > 0,$ $\Omega$ satisfies some geometric conditions, then the above problem has infinitely many solutions.
Citation: Chunhua Wang, Jing Yang. Infinitely many solutions for an elliptic problem with double critical Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya terms. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (3) : 1603-1628. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.1603
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